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Finding Melville’s Whale: Postscript (Chapter 25)

Chapter 25 of Herman Melville’s classic – Moby Dick. Read along with us and discuss this chapter or the book as a whole in the comments. Visit this page for the complete collection to date: Finding Melville’s Whale.

Postscript

In the casting of their coronation,
kings and queens are baptized in the oil
of the richest whale. Their blood moves nations.

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